Stories
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The chymist’s trade card
An 18th-century trade card reveals far more than its owner may have intended.
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Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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Would you like to buy a unicorn?
The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.
Catalogue
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The principles of ornament / by James Ward ; edited by George Aitchison.
Ward, James, 1851-1927.Date: 1896- Pictures
Grotesque ornament. Engravings by or after J. Androuet du Cerceau.
Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques, active 1549-1584.Date: [1562?]Reference: 3183067i- Pictures
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The manufacture and use of carton-pierre and papier-mache: floral and heraldic decorative panels, the whole lettered and numbered for a key. Engraving by Le Canu after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 40507i- Books
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A treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture. Illustrated by fifty original, and three additional plates, engraved by Old Rooker, Old Foudrinier, Charles Grignion, and other eminent hands. By Sir William Chambers, K.P.S. surveyor general of His Majesty's works; treasurer, and member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London; also of those of Paris, and Florence. FRS. FAS. FSSS.
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796.Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- Books
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An accompaniment to the Cabinet-Maker and upholsterer's drawing-book. Containing a variety of ornaments useful for learners to copy from, but particularly adapted to the cabinet and chair branches: exhibiting original and new designs of Chair Legs, Bed Pillars, Window Cornices, Chair Splads, and other Ornaments, calculated to assist in the Decorations of the above Branches; together with instructions in letter-press. By Thomas Sheraton, Cabinet-Maker.
Sheraton, Thomas, 1751-1806.Date: [1792?]